Van Gogh Museum

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2. The Van Gogh Museum is an art museum dedicated to the works of Vincent van Gogh and his contemporaries. The museum's collection

is
the largest collection of Van Gogh's paintings and drawings in the world.
The museum opened on 2 June 1973.

3. Van Gogh Museum.

In 2017, the museum had 2.3 million visitors,
and was the most visited museum in the
Netherlands and the 23rd most visited art
museum in the world.
A ticket costs 18 euros.

4. Unsold works.

Upon Vincent van Gogh's death
in 1890, his work not sold fell
into the possession of Johanna
van Gogh-Bonger. Selling many
of Vincent's paintings with the
ambition of spreading
knowledge of his artwork,
Johanna maintained a private
collection of his works.

5. Dedicated museum.

Design for a Van Gogh Museum
was commissioned by the Dutch
government in 1963 to Dutch
architect and furniture designer
Gerrit Rietveld. Rietveld died a
year later, and the building was
not completed until 1973, when
the museum opened its doors.

6. Dedicated museum.

In 1998 and 1999, the
building was renovated by
the Dutch architect Martien
van Goor and an exhibition
wing by the Japanese
modernist architect Kisho
Kurokawa was added.

7. Dedicated museum.

Starting in late 2012, the
museum was closed for
renovations for six months.
During this period, 75 works
from the collection were
shown in the Hermitage
Amsterdam.

8. Art thefts.

In 1991, twenty paintings
were stolen from the
museum, among them Van
Gogh's early painting The
Potato Eaters.

9. Art thefts.

Congregation leaving the
reformed church in Nuenen.
View of the sea at Scheveningen.

10. Buildings.

The museum is situated at the
Museumplein in Amsterdam-Zuid,
on the Paulus Potterstraat 7.
The museum consists of two
buildings, the Rietveld building,
designed by Gerrit Rietveld, and
the Kurokawa wing, designed by
Kisho Kurokawa.

11. Rietveld building.

The Rietveld building is the
main structure of the
museum and exhibits the
permanent collection. The
building has a rectangular
floor plan and is four stories
high.

12. Kurokawa wing.

The Kurokawa wing is used for major
temporary exhibitions. The building
has an oval floor plan and is three
stories high. The entrance to the
Kurokawa wing is via an underground
tunnel from the Rietveld building.

13. Collection.

The Van Gogh Museum has the
largest Van Gogh collection in
the world. It comprises 200
paintings, 400 drawings, and
700 letters by Vincent van Gogh.
The main exhibition chronicles
the various phases of Van Gogh's
artistic life.

14. Works by his contemporaries.

Auguste Rodin
Jules Dalou

15. Works by his contemporaries.

Édouard Manet.
Claude Monet.

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